Thoreau's "A Week on the Concord and ___ Rivers"

Usage examples of merrimack.

Originally commissioned in the United States Navy as the steamscrew frigate Merrimack, she had been rebuilt by the Confederate engineers after their military forces captured the Norfolk Navy Yard from the Union Navy.

The armament of the converted Merrimack consisted of a deadly assortment of old worn cannon that were hastily converted into more Powerful rifled guns, numbering ten in all.

On the following morning, the crew of Virginia, still called Merrimack in the North, were ready for another day's glory.

Working four thousand men in round-the-clock shifts, he finished the novel vessels in one hundred days, several months before the Monitor and Merrimack duel in Hampton Roads.

Rammed by the Confederate ironclad Merrimack, Newport News, Virginia, 1862.

It wasn’t until they crossed the Merrimack River that she finally spoke.

The newspapers had even carried a picture of the rusty bolt that had apparently given way on an old sluice gate when the Merrimack had been at its spring thaw heights.

But as the Merrimack backed away, her wedge-shaped ram caught inside the frigate and broke off.

Only a few yards back, the concrete bridge passed over Merrimack Road, which, according to the map provided him, ran past the nuclear-storage bunkers.

He made for it, crossing the Merrimack Road, which ringed it like a driveway.

The sky was beginning to lighten in the east, when the Texas thundered out of the James River past Newport News and into the wide estuary and deeper water of Hampton Roads, scene of the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack three years before.